This is crazy! When they "re-released" it with 40k miniatures i thought "yea it figures" and now it's really back! Now i got even more dillema on do i sell my old miniatures before new beautyfull models hit the stores? I'm liking my old Escher better, but it might be due GW lately making ugly pics of minis that look good with proper paint job.

The board terrain is for tunnel fighting and doesn't use squares, uses inches and so on, hence the templates in the base game.

I think they want to have a relatively cheap box with minimal plastic and the main gangs and rules in that you can play without gluing together buildings. Then they hope that if you want to play normal Necromunda you'll either use your Shadow War terrain or buy some!

You can play with the very basic rules, though the league rules are in DZ1, and there are additions (core and optional) in DZ2.So if you have the old rules, no you don't, but if you're buying from new then yes, you probably do.